Daniel Birnbaum is the director of Acute Art, a VR production company, as well as Professor of Philosophy at Städelschule. From 2010 until the summer of 2018 he was the director of the Moderna Museet Stockholm. Prior to this he held the position of rector of the Städelschule between 2000–2010. Next to his directing of the Städelschule and Portikus, Daniel Birnbaum has been curatorially involved in biennials and projects in recent years: the 53rd and 50th Venice Biennale, the Moscow Biennials and as a committee member of the International Foundation Manifesta. In 2008, he was co-curator of the Triennial of Yokohama and curator of the 2nd Triennial of Turin. In the period between 2006 and 2007, he co-curated Airs de Paris at the Centre Pompidou and Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium (with Hans-Ulrich Obrist), first shown at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, and that after traveling to CCS Bard Galeries in New York saw its final manifestation at the Serpentine Gallery in London. A contributing editor of Artforum, he has published numerous books and essays on philosophy and art, both in the framework of Städelschule and Portikus, as well as external engagements, including The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl’s Phenomenology (1998), with Carsten Höller the book Production (2000) and Chronology (2005). His first novel Dr. B was published at the Albert Bonnier Forlag in November 2018.
Professors

Monika Baer
Fine Arts and Painting
Daniel Birnbaum
Philosophy and Art Education
Gerard Byrne
Film
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Cohabitation
Isabelle Graw
Art History and Art Theory
Judith Hopf
Fine Arts
Hassan Khan
Fine Arts
Philippe Pirotte
Art History and Curatorial Studies
Yasmil Raymond
Rector, Professor for Curatorial Studies
Tobias Rehberger
Sculpture
Willem de Rooij
Fine Arts
Haegue Yang
Fine Arts, Vice-RectorGuest
Professors

Eric Baudelaire
Fine Arts
Francisco Camacho Herrera
Fine Arts
Niklas Maak
Fine Arts – Frankfurter Prototyp
Vera Mey
Curatorial Studies and Art History
Ruth Noack
Curatorial Studies and Art History
Slavs and Tatars
Fine Arts
Omar Kasmani
Fine ArtsHonorary
Professors

Kasper König
Cultural Education
Christa Näher
Fine Arts
Wolfgang Tillmans
Fine ArtsResearch
Fellows

Monika Szewczyk
Artistic Research and Curatorial StudiesTeachers

Liberty Adrien & Carina Bukuts
Portikus
Eric Bell
Photo Lab
Karl Kliem
Production Studio
Marius Moll
Film and Video Lab
Nino Pezzella
Drawing
Bernhard Schreiner
Film and Video LabAdditional Teachers
Milena Büsch
Photo Lab
Juliet Carpenter
Production Studio
Anja Cooymans
Print Workshop
Daniel Fort
Sound Studio
Panagiotis Fotiadis
German Class
Claudia Gaida
German Class
Christopher Garthe
Sustainibility
Sandra Havlicek
Production Studio
Jacqueline Jurt
Print Workshop
Yasuaki Kitagawa
Sculpture Workshop
Harald Pridgar
Computer Workshops
Peyman Rahimi
Print Workshop
Nermine Saadeh
Production Studio
Katharina Schücke
Photo Lab
Sebastian Stöhrer
Wood and Ceramics Workshop
Silke Wagner
Print Workshop
Stefan Wieland
Portikus
Wolfgang Winter
Sculpture Workshop
Christian Zickler
Print Workshop
Past Faculty

Clémentine Deliss
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Art History and Curatorial Studies
Asad Raza
Winter Semester 2022/23: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Hannah Black
Winter Semester 2021/22: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Tania Bruguera
Summer Semester 2021: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Keren Cytter
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Cyprien Gaillard
Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Fine Arts
Ayşe Güleç
Winter Semester 2021/22–Summer Semester 2022: Research Fellow
Jenny Nachtigall
Summer Semester 2019–Winter Semester 2020/21: Guest Professor for Art Theory
Rahraw Omarzad
Summer Semester 2022: Guest Professor for Fine Arts (Gasthof)
Walid Raad
Summer Semester 2022: Visiting Artist